The essentials of March 4 at the end of the day
- Leaks in the German army: the German ambassador summoned to Moscow
Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Kremlin denounced “direct involvement” of the West in Ukraine, following the broadcast on Russian social networks of a conversation between German officers on arms deliveries to Ukraine. For her part, Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, urged her country’s coalition to ” consider “ the possibility of deliveries of Taurus missiles to Ukraine.
- Russia: Boris Nadejdine’s complaint against the invalidation of his candidacy for the presidential election rejected by the Supreme Court
The candidacy of Boris Nadezhdine, the only opponent of Vladimir Putin and the offensive in Ukraine to have presented himself in the presidential election, was invalidated on February 8 by the electoral commission, according to which the number of inadmissible signatures exceeds the threshold 5% limit.
- Ukraine urges West to transfer frozen Russian assets
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmyhal has asked Western powers to transfer 300 billion euros of frozen Russian assets to Kiev to avoid elections in allied countries calling into question support for the invasion from Moscow.
- Poland calls for European sanctions for Russian and Belarusian agricultural products
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced his intention to ask the Polish Parliament to adopt a resolution on Monday “calling on the European Commission to impose comprehensive sanctions” concerning Russian and Belarusian agricultural and food products which are not subject to European embargoes.
- Arms deliveries not affected by Polish border blockade, says kyiv
The blockade of the Ukrainian border by Polish farmers mobilized against what they consider to be unfair competition from their eastern neighbors has no consequences on arms deliveries, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmyhal assured Monday.
- Ukraine’s accession to the European Union: Brussels will present the negotiating framework in mid-March
The European Commission confirmed on Monday that it would present to Member States during March the framework for negotiations with a view to Ukraine’s accession to the EU. This deadline was the subject of uncertainty, the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, having once mentioned “the beginning of summer”before declaring three days later, during a press conference in kyiv, on February 24, that this would indeed take place “in mid-March”.
- Ukraine says it has not received 16 billion euros in aid collected in 2022
More than 16 billion euros in aid to Ukraine, collected by Poland and the European Commission during two donor conferences organized in Warsaw in 2022, has not been paid, the Ukrainian Prime Minister lamented on Monday, Denys Chmyhal.
- kyiv ensures it is building “effective” defenses, amid criticism
Criticism of the weakness of the Ukrainian defense lines, or even their absence, appeared after the rapid advance of Moscow’s forces to the west of the town of Avdiivka, in the wake of the fall of this locality to the mid-February, after four months of harsh assaults by the Russians.
- Request for an independent international investigation into the death of Alexeï Navalny
Forty-three countries, including the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom, launched a joint call on Monday for an international investigation into the death of opponent Alexeï Navalny during his detention in Russia. In a press release, consulted by Agence France-Presse, they considered that this death constituted a “new sign of growing and systematic repression in Russia”.
- A railway bridge in Samara Oblast, Russia, damaged by an explosion
An explosion caused a railway bridge to be knocked out of service on Monday morning in the Samara oblast, south of Kazan, Russia, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced, without claiming responsibility. responsibility.